Koda

Perhaps part of being an artist is getting really really good at something, setting it aside, and trying something completely different. Isn’t it a strange coincidence that, the artists who usually have the most to say, have found the most ways to say it in?

Skill is inevitably attainable. Experience breeds skill. But vision is something we are born with, and spend the rest of our lives trying to find. Vision is message, purpose, and drive. Skills can help bring attention to a vision, but visionless skills talk a lot but say very little.

To me it’s reassuring that we can always find something we’re terrible at the first time around. It’s equally reassuring to think that every time I do, there’s more meaning in there, somewhere behind the terribleness.

I think to be an artist is like being a warrior; part training, and a vastly larger part perspective. Fighting battles is pointless if you lack the perspective to justify why you fight.

Sense a pattern? I do.